17:32 Youth’s Oath of Vengeance, Cries of Hatred | |
[Page 4] Rodong Sinmun - June 25, 2025, Wednesday
Vengeance Pledge Meeting Held on June 25 Day of Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism The confrontational frenzy of U.S. imperialists and ROK puppets, desperately obstructing our state’s existence and development for decades and generations, erupts the wrath and hatred of the entire people and passionate youth like molten fire. Amid the new generation’s escalating will for merciless retaliation to end the criminal history of sworn enemies, a vengeance pledge meeting of youth and students was held on June 24 at the Pyongyang Youth Park Open-Air Theatre. Youth league officials and Pyongyang youth and students attended. First, a documentary exposing U.S. imperialism’s heinous crimes during the Fatherland Liberation War was screened. The film showed unprecedented mass slaughter of innocent peaceful residents—brutality, cruelty, and horror beyond imagination—is the truth of the Korean War imposed by U.S. imperialism. Watching the documentary imparting bitter lessons from that harsh era, youth and students reaffirmed: "Illusion about the enemy is death. Only staunch hostility and will to annihilate the enemy, and accelerating our absolute strength, safeguard this land’s precious all." Discussants took the podium. Yearly marking June 25, youth and students nationwide harden their vengeance to make U.S. invaders pay a thousandfold. U.S. imperialism and hostile forces run amok with military confrontation to seize our life’s happy nest even now. Imperialists’ aggressive nature never changes. All youth must deeply engrave: "Settle accounts with enemies only through merciless gunfire." They must pioneer patriotic movements contributing to building the strongest military might, boldly develop production and creation struggles for comprehensive national rejuvenation, and vigorously pursue study competitions and scientific exploration. They pledged to heighten struggle against all anti-socialist and non-socialist elements, safeguard our-style socialism, fortify ideological and class positions, and constantly create new miracles and feats on grand construction fronts. "If U.S. imperialism brings war clouds again, we will unleash our thousandfold vengeance, uprooting the source of aggression and war, and glorify the noble honor of being the new generation of Juche Korea, descendants of the victorious generation!" During the meeting, participants’ roaring shouts of "Annihilate the enemy!" powerfully resonated. The youth and students’ vengeance pledge meeting powerfully displayed the new generation’s patriotic will and indomitable spirit to endlessly glorify our ideology, system, and beloved homeland with staunch spirit of defending the homeland and revolution. ＊ ＊ A vengeance pledge meeting of women’s union officials and members was held on June 24 at the Central Class Education Museum square, marking the June 25 Day of Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism. The venue seethed with surging hatred against U.S. imperialism and class enemies, who brought war disaster to this land pulsating with new life creation and left blood-soaked resentment never to be erased for all ages. After a report, discussions followed. Reporters and discussants stated that the unprecedented massacre during the Fatherland Liberation War clearly shows U.S. imperialist invaders are sworn enemies sharing no sky with us. They vehemently condemned U.S. imperialism’s eternal crimes, leaving unhealed wounds. The Fatherland Liberation War 70+ years ago teaches the stark lesson: "Bitter history must never repeat. Only invincible absolute strength guarantees our precious happiness and future." They pledged iron resolve: "If invaders impose war again, we will take vengeance a thousandfold for fallen mothers and beloved children combined!" All women’s union officials and members must hold faith in victory: "With the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, we will surely win!" Become women revolutionaries defending the Party Central Committee politically, ideologically, and with their lives. Today’s confrontation is an ideological and faith showdown, a fierce class struggle. Never forget the bloody lesson: "Illusion about the enemy is death." Continuously heighten anti-imperialist, anti-U.S., and class education. Always remember: "Strong gun barrels guard family happiness and descendants’ bright future." Actively send children to national defense posts, sincerely support the People’s Army, and substantially contribute to strengthening national defense. Reporters and discussants expressed resolve: "Firmly united around the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, we will solidly fortify our revolutionary and class positions, and fully display Korean women’s revolutionary spirit in the majestic struggle to unconditionally implement Party Central Committee plenum decisions." Women’s union central committee officials and Pyongyang members attended. ＊ ＊ Agricultural workers and union members held a vengeance pledge meeting marking June 25, filled with surging wrath against U.S. and puppet South Korea’s frenzied political-military provocations gravely threatening our dignified state’s security. The meeting at the Susan-ri Class Education Museum square on June 24 was attended by relevant sector officials, Agricultural Workers’ Union Central Committee officials, and South Phyongan Province members. After a report, discussions followed. Reporters and discussants stated that recalling U.S. imperialism’s eternal crimes—inflicting war disaster 75 years ago on our people overflowing with joy building a new society—all agricultural workers seethe with burning hatred. Though decades have passed since the brutal war imposed by U.S. imperialism, June 25 remains an unhealing wound of resentment. U.S. imperialism—using massive invasion forces to destroy everything into ashes—is a strangler of justice and peace, unparalleled human butchers. The museum’s exhibits and massacre sites expose to the world the brutality of cannibal hordes bred on misanthropy. They emphasized: "History’s stern lesson is that only by building invincible absolute strength can tragedies like June 25 never recur." Imperialist high-handedness and arbitrary practices trampling sovereign states’ rights prove how just and correct our Party and people’s chosen self-defense idea and line are. All agricultural workers and union members must cherish unshakable faith: "Only on the path following the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un lie victory, glory, and happiness." Become a thousand-layered fortress and bulletproof wall defending the Party Central Committee with life. Agricultural unions must prioritize anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. education across generations and heighten class education. All agricultural workers must regard fortifying national defense as citizens’ sacred duty and highest patriotism, sincerely support the People’s Army, and actively join socialist patriotic movements contributing to the homeland’s prosperous development. Emulate the wartime patriotic peasants’ struggle spirit and style—ensuring grain production amid hails of bullets. Maximize production, practice economy, and glorify this meaningful year—the 80th Party founding anniversary—with high grain yields. All agricultural workers and union members, firmly united around the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, overflow with merciless retaliatory will to fight vigorously for victory in the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. showdown, living as worthy descendants of the victorious generation who defended socialism with rice. Participants toured the Susan-ri Class Education Museum beforehand.
Class Education-Themed Art Exhibition Opens Marking the June 25 Day of Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism, a class education-themed art exhibition opened at the Pyongyang International Culture Center on June 24. Over 100 artworks exposing the eternal crimes of U.S. and Japanese imperialists and other sworn enemies—stretching black tentacles of aggression into Korea for over a century and committing all manner of atrocities—were displayed. Oil paintings Resentment Over the West Sea and The 103rd Child’s Scream, condemning U.S. imperialism’s brutal slaughter during the Fatherland Liberation War, deepen avengers’ frosty hatred. Korean paintings like New Year’s Eve and sculpture In the Badger’s Den expose Japanese imperialist crimes during their illegal occupation. Calligraphy Answer the Tyrant’s Nuke With Justice’s Nuke and posters like Mercilessly Wipe Out the Ragged and Vile South Korean Hoodlums, reflecting will to mercilessly annihilate U.S. imperialists and South Korean warmongers running wild to crush our dignified Republic while dreaming of old systems, were also displayed. Officials, creators, and Pyongyang workers toured the exhibition. Viewing class education-themed artworks, visitors hardened their merciless resolve: "Our archenemy never changes across ten million years. Settle accumulated resentment only with class gunfire, revolutionary gunfire!" [Korean Central News Agency]
Mobile Lecture Activities Active in Bustling Fields Class Education Museums Nationwide Marking the June 25–July 27 Joint Anti-U.S. Struggle Period, lecturers from class education museums nationwide actively conduct mobile lectures in fields bustling with current farming. Units ensured lecturers prepared content thoroughly, raising lecture quality. Lecturers from Nyongbyon County, guarding the forefront of class education, combined "flame-style" lectures and art agitation with songs like Love to My Homeland, Hatred to the Enemy, freshly and effectively engraving in farm workers and supporters’ hearts the truth: "Settle accounts with enemies through bloody reckoning!" Lecturers from Ragwon County substantively conducted class education at Sejung, Sepo, and Sadong farms, combining dynamic, appealing songs and poems like Defend Socialism and We Are Koreans, doubling agricultural workers’ zeal to safeguard our-style socialism with rice. Naming various educational methods to instill unwavering views on the main enemy, lecturers from Ichon and Anbyon counties added will to annihilate the enemy to hearts—becoming a lesson in how to guard revolutionary and class positions. Conscious that anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. education permits no delay or neglect, lecturers from Unsong County class education museum actively conducted lectures and art agitation during work breaks while laboring alongside farm workers. Lecturers from Haeju City and Kophung County class education museums enhanced anti-imperialist class education effectiveness by using materials exposing enemy brutality and aggressive nature at model farms like Huksong, Sanggo, and Pyongdang. Mobile lecture activities by lecturers nationwide actively unfolding in fields enhance officials and workers’ class consciousness. [Korean Central News Agency] Battlefield True Story Phoenixes of the Sea
The respected Comrade General Secretary stated at the KPA Navy destroyer launching ceremony last April: "The Korean People’s Army Navy’s history of feats—defending our maritime sovereignty, the core of state rights, repelling countless invasion threats for nearly 80 years—testifies that our seas have been guarded by our sailors’ spirit." "The great spirit that shed pure blood to defend the Republic’s sovereignty on the open sea without border markers—though generations change—must be unfailingly inherited. With the pioneering generation’s indomitable bravery and fortitude, it must shine eternally as the soul of eternal guardianship." Looking back, the victory history written in blood by our soldiers during the Fatherland Liberation War includes the heroic feats of KPA naval mine soldiers who annihilated U.S. imperialist pirates with the great naval spirit bestowed by the Leader. The Great Leader clearly elucidated the importance of mine warfare in July 1950, just one month after war erupted: "Mines are a powerful means of anti-ship struggle." A Supreme Command order personally signed by the Great Leader recorded:
This Supreme Command order was the sailors’—especially mine soldiers’—supreme faith. Thus, heroic sailors boldly waged mine-laying operations with firm conviction and courage. Back then, they lacked suitable ships and expertise. Yet their hearts overflowed with faith: "Following the Great Leader’s teachings guarantees victory!" After sinking a cruiser boasting "moving island of the sea" just one week into the war, engraving victory’s law—"Absolute loyalty to the Supreme Command’s order brings victory against any mighty enemy"—they trained day and night in mine warfare. Thus, from mid-August 1950, for two months, they splendidly fulfilled combat missions laying mines in ports and waters off Korea’s east and west seas, sinking numerous enemy ships. How could U.S. pirates—boasting domination over the Pacific, even the world’s oceans—taste bitter defeat only in Korea’s seas? The answer lies in hero Kim Won Jin’s words before mine combat: "Mine attack"—a term only our sailors shouted during the harsh Fatherland Liberation War. With extraordinary resolve to defend Korea’s seas—more precious than life—bestowed by the Great Leader, how could our heroic naval soldiers not win? Comrade Kim Jin Chol’s mine-laying team exemplified this. Assigned in February 1953 to lay mines in a bay, they had only a small boat. Stormy waves raged relentlessly. Yet Comrade Kim Jin Chol and team members’ hearts surged with fiery resolve: "If the boat capsizes carrying mines, we’ll clutch them, charge enemy ships, and fulfill the mission!" At 22:00, the mine-laden boat sailed, braving fierce waves. Each wave tossed it skyward before crashing down; seawater drenched them. Saltwater stiffened uniforms like armor. No hardship barred their path. Reaching the target area, they dropped mines under Kim Jin Chol’s command. But as the last mine was released, dozens of flares lit the sky. Machine-gun fire poured like hail. Comrades fell beside Kim Jin Chol; soon the boat capsized. He couldn’t even retrieve comrades’ bodies. Knowing a mine with its safety pin intact was useless—disgracing fallen comrades—he swallowed tears and began searching. Cold seawater froze him. Yet with fiery resolve—"Find the mine unconditionally!"—he succeeded, splendidly completing the mission. Among sailors sacrificing lives to defend Korea’s seas were heroes charging enemy ships as human bombs to avenge slain parents and heroes luring enemy ships to minefields with dying breaths. What is our clean navy’s true combat strength? What homeland defense spirit filled our heroic mine soldiers’ hearts? U.S. pirates likely couldn’t fathom it. A U.S. Marine division commander confessed in a telegram: "The U.S. Navy has lost command of Korean waters." Averaging 18 bombs per km²—3.7 times more than dropped on Japan in the Pacific War—proved indiscriminate bombing. The Great Leader highly evaluated mine soldiers’ feats: "Sailors laid mines using fishing boats... preventing enemy ships from approaching our shores." Military honor lies in feats. But the immortal feats and heroism of our navy’s first mine soldiers—achieving triumphant victory against U.S. pirates at overwhelming odds—cannot be measured by numbers alone. They taught a truth: "Mines forged by staunch homeland defense spirit can sink mightiest enemy ships. Life dedicated guarding the sea as a mine and bulwark lives eternally with the homeland." From then, years flowed far. But the great naval spirit created by our victorious generation—phoenixes of the sea—is steadfastly inherited by new-generation sailors today. With the Party’s leadership and our new sailors reliably inheriting the previous generation’s great spirit, only glorious victory history will be written on our homeland’s seas henceforth. By An Jong Chol | |
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